Skinner Burn, log boat

This log boat cut from a single oak, length 4.9m, width 1.2m in the centre, was dredged from the Tyne near the Skinner Burn in January 1869. Heslop suggests that the log boat survived because it was buried in the river bed when it was dry or reduced by seasonal drought and that it was a votive offering in the same tradition as the deposition of metal objects in the preceding Bronze Age.
NB Miket gives the location as c. NZ 238628, this has been refined to a location closer to the Skinner Burn.